My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. ✨ Karl…

Karl Kraus
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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. ✨ Karl Kraus (1977). No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus, Frederick Ungar
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. ✨ Die Fackel, no. 277/78 (March 31, 1909), translated in Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Ps … ▶
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. ✨ Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Transl … ▶
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. ✨ Karl Kraus (1977). No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus, Frederick Ungar

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